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  • Ok, this inventor invented a radio signaling device that used frequency hopping, patented it and then gave it to the Navy to use with their torpedoes. The Navy, of course demurred, as they thought a player piano wouldn't fit inside a torpedo. Later technology would rediscover how important that invention was. Who was the inventor?

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    • Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
      Ok, this inventor invented a radio signaling device that used frequency hopping, patented it and then gave it to the Navy to use with their torpedoes. The Navy, of course demurred, as they thought a player piano wouldn't fit inside a torpedo. Later technology would rediscover how important that invention was. Who was the inventor?
      Would that be the beautiful star of stage and screen, Miss Hedy Lamarr?

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      • That is correct. Now between the fish biting and your F-18 Hornet build where will you find the time for a question...?
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        • Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
          That is correct. Now between the fish biting and your F-18 Hornet build where will you find the time for a question...?
          High winds and heavy seas today. No fishing.

          The last Hornet was finished today/updated thread.

          More than enough time for a question.

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          • Name the last Battleship sunk by a submarine.

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              • Correct. He was not only the last battleship sunk by a submarine, He was also the only Japanese Battleship sunk by one.

                Sunk by the USS Sealion

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                • What ship holds a record for the most catapult launches and recoveries (279) and Naval aviators qualified (58) in one month, November of 1944?
                  She also had 3 unique lives as a warship and served into the 21st century.
                  Craig Johnson

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                  • The only WW2 aircraft carrier that I can think of that served in the 21st century is the USS Intrepid.

                    She acted as the FBI Operations center after 9/11

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                    • Originally posted by Gun Grape View Post
                      The only WW2 aircraft carrier that I can think of that served in the 21st century is the USS Intrepid.

                      She acted as the FBI Operations center after 9/11
                      No not the Intrepid she was a commissioned warship ship early in the 21st century.

                      She could very well be the last US built warships to be captured by enemy forces.
                      Craig Johnson

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                      • Early in her career she had the unenviable job of being used as target practice for torpedo’s, it caused several hull leeks and once required drydocking to replace a propeller.
                        Craig Johnson

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                        • With that many launches, recoveries and pilots qualified it makes me want to think of a training carrier. However, the three I am aware of being the Sable, Wolverine and Lexington don't fit the time lines. Yet, the British did have two Light Fleet Carriers that lasted into the 21st Century, the Vengeance (Minas Gerais) and Hercules (Vikrant) but neither was commissioned before 1945.

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                          • The main reason she had a second life, on loan from the Navy, was her “High Endurance”.
                            Craig Johnson

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                            • HMS Vengeance?

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                              • Originally posted by FlankDestroyer View Post
                                HMS Vengeance?
                                No this was an American flagged ship but did spend it's last days in a foreign Navy, in fact 2 foreign Navies.
                                Craig Johnson

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